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Three reviews of new classical music CDs: one is inviting, another lively, and the last could use more intensity.
At first glance, Oz and Oz-Salzberger’s “Jews and Words” seems to be an unexceptional if elegantly written and occasionally witty contribution to the Jewish bookshelf.
Cellist Alessio Pianelli’s playing is songful and lovely. The Avos Chamber Orchestra — essentially a student orchestra — imbues their performances with a confidence and surety that is inspiring.
This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.
Despite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.
What makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.
Those who survive the climate crisis will regard American theater’s current indifference with incredulity and disgust.
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”
“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom
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